Thread: The Real Wedge

I'm not sure why someone would want to make one in the first place but wouldn't it be possible to make a true wedge if you ground it similarly to how you grind a rattler?

Well of course you could just forge a true wedge without using grinding wheels - it would then have to be freehand honed.

Originally Posted by UKRob

Well of course you could just forge a true wedge without using grinding wheels - it would then have to be freehand honed.

It is certainly not impossible to make one but what would be the point ? As far as what they did in Sheffield a couple of hundred years ago, electrical tape was hard to come by in those days ........ Home Depot hadn't made it over to the British isles yet ..........

The closest thing to a true wedge would have had to be done on a very large wheel to minimize the slight concavity(is this a word?) and I have seen razors like this and in order to hone it w/o tape it would either be done freehand, with a jig or practically the whole side of the razor honed.

I have done whole side thing and it does take some time.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

........ Home Depot hadn't made it over to the British isles yet ..........

It still hasn't. Ask any Brit how to pronounce it and they will not say 'Deepo'.

Does shaving predate the grinding wheel? I have no evidence, but I would assume there were once true wedges. I mean, they used to shave with sharpened sea shells for goodness sake.

The first hammer forged blade may have been this way, but not since the invention of the grinding wheel.

One dimensional thinking...why couldn't one grind on the flat side of the wheel to get a true wedge?

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

It is certainly not impossible to make one but what would be the point ? As far as what they did in Sheffield a couple of hundred years ago, electrical tape was hard to come by in those days ........ Home Depot hadn't made it over to the British isles yet ..........

In those days they used duck tape. There's always been ducks.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

In those days they used duck tape. There's always been ducks.

The Duke of ducks would know.